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FFM: Fritz Leiber, Jody Scott, James Sallis; Gary Jennings, Josephine Saxton,...
Three magazine issues, with blue covers. Why care about these first 1969 issues (even the January issue of F&SF would've been on the stands for Xmas '68) from these titles? Some impressive writers...
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Announcement text courtesy File 770The finalists for the 1941 Retro Hugo Awards were announced on Tuesday, April 26...There were 481 valid nominating ballots (475 electronic and 6 paper) received and...
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Underappreciated Music: 2016 so far
The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...Patti Abbott: Night Music;Prince; Beth OrtonBrian...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links to reviews and more
La piscineAs always, please let me know if I've missed your or anyone else's contribution this week in comments...thanks.Anne Billson: Crossfire and 12 older films in theaters; The Technicolor Yawn:...
View ArticleSpells cast: Saturday Music Club on Wednesday
I Put a Spell on You: some relatively recent recordings. Feliz Cinco de Mayo, mañana.The Scarlet FuriesHarcsa Veronika BandJoss Stone BandEmma-Lee and Jesse CookSamantha Fish BandElisabeth Kontomanou
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5/4: It's Morello/Desmond/Brubeck/Wright Day! Some jazz in 5/4
Tom Kraemer memed at me and some others:May the Five Quarters Be With You...Max Roach Quintet: "As Long as You're Living"Max Roach Quintet: "Driva' Man" (follows an excerpt from "Love for Sale")Art...
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FFFirstB: MOTHER ISN'T DEAD SHE'S ONLY SLEEPING by Kit Reed (Houghton Mifflin...
Kit Reed has had a fairly remarkable career for someone who has only infrequently gotten due attention and commendation for her consistently sharp and grounded comic vision, satirical without rendering...
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Saturday Music Club on Sunday: some jazz television series in black and white
The Nat King Cole Show(NBC 1956)(famously unable to get national sponsorship, so NBC ran it in essence to sell Cole's RCA records...and because they should)with the Oscar Peterson TrioArt Ford's...
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Tuesday's Overlooked A/V, Films and More, for 10 May 2016: new links
The weekly roundup of reviews, interviews, and other citations of (often, though not always, underappreciated examples of the dramatic and related arts). As always, please let me know if I've missed...
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Fantasy magazines in English, August 1957 cover-dates...
Sadly, not a review I could write quite yet if I wanted to, since I don't have any of these issues so far, but August 1957 is one of those dates for which there were at least two more magazines...
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NIGHT FREIGHT by Bill Pronzini (Leisure Books 2000)
Bill Pronzini is another writer I've been reading for nearly all my literate life...I've reviewed some of his books as we've gone along here, mostly as an editor, since he's been impressively prolific...
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Tuesday's Overlooked A/V: Films, TV, Radio and More
Trois chambres à ManhattanThe weekly roundup of reviews, interviews, and other citations of (often, though not always, underappreciated examples of the dramatic and related arts). As always, please...
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Howard Browne magazines at Ziff-Davis, an addition
After they finally let Howard Browne have his semi-slick Fantastic in 1952, to initial excellent sales...they also finally remade Amazing in the same image the next year...and even let Browne revive...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links to reviews and more: 20 May 2016
The weekly assembly of reviews and citations of books and related literature not yet or no longer given much attention, usually less than they deserve. Most weeks hosted by Patti Abbott, but this week...
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The soundtrack composers in the NIGHT GALLERY: Saturday Music Club submitted...
Night Gallery was a disappointing television series, to say the least, even given the occasional excellences in individual episodes (they had the wit to adapt Fritz Leiber stories, but never very well;...
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Tuesday's Overlooked A/V: films, television, radio and more
Too Late for TearsThe weekly roundup of reviews, interviews, and other citations of (often, though not always) underappreciated examples of the dramatic and related arts. As always, please let me know...
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Underappreciated Music: May 2016
The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of..."BNoirDetour": Five Classic Film Musical...
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FF(Fantasy Fiction)M: FANTASTIC, FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, THE HAUNT OF...
Three issues from the shank of each magazine's run under these editors...of course, editor (and eventual tv producer) Gerard F. "Gerry" Conway wouldn't get too much chance to do more with his prose...
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